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Kinshasa Lectures and seminars in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been suspended for a week out of respect for assassinated president Laurent Kabila. But at the University of Kivu in the...
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Cost cuts haunt medical body
The Canadian government's decision to drastically reduce student enrolment in medical schools ten years ago is being reversed as the country faces a shortage of doctors. Critics say the shortages can...
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Linguists net lovers' pillow talk
Linguistic scientists at Münster University in Germany have found a shrewd way of gathering research material into the secret language of lovers. Students who wanted to join a seminar on the subject...
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UK don goes the distance with study reform in Africa
Nearly 40 years ago, a British professor embarked on a career that has helped create distance-learning opportunities across Africa. Tony Dodds, who worked in open and distance learning in countries...
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Wealthy Oman looks to upgrade
A baby boom is putting oil-rich Oman under pressure to upgrade education to guarantee jobs for local people and reduce the burgeoning economy's reliance on foreign workers. Three, and possibly four,...
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Church papers listed online
St Andrews University hopes to spare researchers unnecessary visits to its campus to trawl through key church papers by creating an internet database. St Andrews has the world's finest collection of...
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Russian archive to rival US NetLibrary
Researchers and scholars the world over will soon gain access to tens of thousands of rare and sought-after books from the vast archives of the Russian State Library via the internet. A £2 million...
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Wap lets students ring for results
Wap technology may spare German students a trip to the examination office to get their results - they will be able to call them up on their mobile phones instead. The higher education information...
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Spin-off sold for £200m
The University of Bradford will be £36 million richer today after selling its share of spin-off company Bradford Particle Design. The sale of the spin-off to Californian pharmaceuticals company...
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Director seconded to the SIE
Carl Togneri, director of semi-conductors at Scottish Enterprise, has won a two-year secondment to the post of director of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise. The SIE, a consortium of Dundee,...
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Scholars overhaul concept of e-book
Academics at Birmingham and Nottingham universities have created a new kind of electronic book that they believe could revolutionise scholarly writing and publishing. The multidimensional, coherent...
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Building the foundation for a learning country
The assembly is committed to seeing higher education remain the linchpin of Wales, argues Jane Davidson. When Labour came into office in 1997, universities faced a crisis because the previous...
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Why I... think universities are becoming anti-intellectual
Last November I received a visit from Rosa, a first-year sociology undergraduate from another university. Rosa told me that she was looking to transfer to a different sociology department and wanted...
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Securing offshore interests
UK institutions operating abroad should encourage quality controls for the good of international education, says Ray Wild. The internationalisation of British higher education is a long and...
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Fairness lies within
Cambridge's internal equality audit could be a model for higher education, says Gill Jackson. The government is well known for its commitment to widening access to our leading universities and to...